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1963 The biggest news from 1963 was the assassination
of the US President Kennedy which thrust Lyndon Johnson into the role
of president and the murder two days later of Lee Harvey Oswald by nightclub
owner Jack Ruby. This was a difficult time to become president with the
mounting troubles in Vietnam where the Viet Cong Guerrillas had now killed
80 American Advisors and the continued campaign for civil rights by the
black community caused violent reactions from whites including Mississippi,
Virginia and Alabama where the black civil rights leader Martin Luther
King Jr was arrested. Films included "The Birds" and "The
Great Escape" and popular TV programs"The Virginian" and
"Lassie". ladies fashion clothes and hairstyles included Fur
boots and towering hair do's for evening wear. In music the beginning
of Beatlemania after they release "I Want To Hold Your Hand/I Saw
Her Standing There" and "Meet the Beatles".

Cost of Living 1963

How Much things cost in 1963
Yearly Inflation Rate USA 1.24%
Yearly Inflation Rate UK 1.8%
Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 762
Average Cost of new house $12,650.00
Average Income per year $5,807.00
Gas per Gallon 29 cents
Average Cost of a new car $3,233.00
Loaf of bread 22 cents
Bedroom Air Conditioner $149.95
New Ford Cortina $675.00

This was the year an Insurance firm State
Mutual Life Insurance invented the Smiley Face found on anything and
everything around the world including T Shirts , it's popularity was
at it's peak in the 1960's

The Beatles release their first album Please
Please Me.

The first episode of the BBC television series
Doctor Who is broadcast

Bob Dylan walks off the Ed Sullivan show

Beatles Release I Want To Hold Your Hand/I
Saw Her Standing There and Meet the Beatles which is the beginning of
Beatlemania.

Popular Films

Cleopatra

The Longest Day

Lawrence of Arabia

Mutiny on the Bounty

To Kill a Mockingbird

Popular Musicians

The Beatles

Roy Orbison

Buddy Holly

The Drifters

Jim Reeves

Popular TV Programs

Coronation Street

The Andy Griffith Show

The Flintstones

Mister Ed

The Avengers

The Dick Van Dyke Show

Technology 1963

AT&T introduces touch tone phones

Flymo Sells first Hover Mower

Zip codes implemented in US

Lava Lamp or The Astro Lamp Launched by Edward
Craven Walker

Inventions Invented
by Inventors and Country ( or attributed to First Use )